Hi, Wesley, On 2010-1-15, at 6:07, Wesley Leggette wrote: > Hello, > > I sent this out to the apps discuss list, but I thought somebody here might > also be able to help me. > > My company is interested in submitting an I-D for our network distributed > storage protocol. At this point, we're thinking of dividing our efforts into > multiple parts: > > * An on-the-wire application protocol from client to storage servers. > * A security protocol. > * A data processing method and storage format for client data stored on > storage servers. > > I'm not entirely clear which working group(s) I should attempt to work with. > Any pointers would be helpful. > > Our application and products as a whole get into the "cloud storage" area, > but we would like to focus on a smaller subset (just the network protocol) > to begin with. However, if there are any working groups within IETF that > focus on remote or distributed storage that would be interesting to know as > well.
you probably want to take a look at the work of the NFSv4 working group (http://tools.ietf.org/wg/nfsv4/charters), since NFS is the IETF's current major protocol in this space. The STORM working group (http://tools.ietf.org/wg/storm/charters) is currently chartered to do maintenance on the lower part of the IETF storage stack, namely, the iSCSI and RDMA protocols originally done in the now-concluded IPS and RDDP working groups. (I've CC'ed both NFSv4 and STORM on this reply.) Lars > Thanks, > > Wesley Leggette > Cleversafe, Inc.
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